Community

Our community started in 2025 and consists of scientists, institutions and universities creating synthetic cells from the bottom-up. Large projects within our community are EVOLF and BaSyC.

Our SynCellNL community

Expertise

Affiliation

Project

Position

Adja Zoumaro-Djayoon
Tu Delft
Technician
Liquid chromatography

About me

Adja Zoumaro-Djayoon
Tu Delft
Technician
Liquid chromatography

About me

Adja Zoumaro-Djayoon
Tu Delft
Technician
Liquid chromatography

About me

Adja Zoumaro-Djayoon
Tu Delft
Technician
Liquid chromatography

About me

Adja Zoumaro-Djayoon
Tu Delft
Technician
Liquid chromatography

About me

Beatriz Orozco Monroy
Tu Delft
Technician
Hybrid DNA segregation system, cytoskeleton

About me

Beatriz Orozco Monroy
Tu Delft
Technician
Hybrid DNA segregation system, cytoskeleton

About me

Beatriz Orozco Monroy
Tu Delft
Technician
Hybrid DNA segregation system, cytoskeleton

About me

Beatriz Orozco Monroy
Tu Delft
Technician
Hybrid DNA segregation system, cytoskeleton

About me

Beatriz Orozco Monroy
Tu Delft
Technician
Hybrid DNA segregation system, cytoskeleton

About me

Adja Zoumaro-Djayoon
Tu Delft
Technician
Liquid chromatography

About me

Adja Zoumaro-Djayoon
Tu Delft
Technician
Liquid chromatography

About me

Adja Zoumaro-Djayoon
Tu Delft
Technician
Liquid chromatography

About me

Adja Zoumaro-Djayoon
Tu Delft
Technician
Liquid chromatography

About me

Adja Zoumaro-Djayoon
Tu Delft
Technician
Liquid chromatography

About me

Adja Zoumaro-Djayoon

TU Delft

Technician

Liquid chromatography

About me

Aigars Piruska

Radboud University

Research assistant

-

About me

Alexander van Oudenaarden

Hubrecht Institute

Scientist leader EVOLF 

Single-cell omics

About me

Andrei Sakai

Hubrecht Institute

Postdoc

-

About me

Annemieke Mathissen

TU Delft

PhD

In vitro PURE chromosomes

About me

Antonia Schneider

University of Groningen

PhD

Glycolytic genes, synthetic cell

About me

Arjen Jakobi

TU Delft

Scientist leader EVOLF 

Cryogenic electron microscopy

About me

Arnold Driessen

University of Groningen

PI  BaSyC

-

About me

Ava Nievaart

TU Delft

Management Assistant

Managament Support

About me

Barbara Terlouw

Wageningen University

Postdoc

-

About me

Beatriz Orozco Monroy

TU Delft

PhD

Hybrid DNA segregation system, cytoskeleton

About me

Bela Mulder

AMOLF/ Wageningen University

PI  BaSyC

-

About me

Bert Poolman

University of Groningen

Scientist leader EVOLF and PI BaSyC

Biochemistry, metabolism

About me

Bert van Herck

TU Delft

PhD

The entire life cycle of synthetic cells on-chip.

About me

Cecelia de Agrela Pinto

TU Delft

Technician

Technical support

About me

Cees Dekker

TU Delft

Steering board (Chair) EVOLF and PI BaSyC

Biophysics; genome, cell division

About me

Céline Cleij

TU Delft

PhD

Synthetic genomes

About me

Charlotte Koster

Wageningen University

Postdoc

Synthetic cell

About me

Charu Sharma

TU Delft

Postdoc

Synthetic cell division

About me

Christine Jacobs-Wagner

Stanford University

Advisory Board EVOLF

-

About me

Christophe Danelon

Toulouse Biotechnology Institute/ TU Delft

About me

Postdoc

Synthetic gene expression systems or operons

Claudio Hernandez Lopez

TU Delft

Postdoc

cell growth, replication, division in E. coli and synthetic cells

About me

Craig Venter

J. Craig Venter Institute

Advisory Board EVOLF

-

About me

Damir Sakhapov

TU Delft

Postdoc

fabricated silicon-based devices.

About me

Dani Ye

TU Delft

PhD

-

About me

Daphne Broeks

Radboud University

PhD

synthetic cell

About me

David Dulin

VU Amsterdam

Associate PI EVOLF and PI BaSyC

-

About me

Dimphna Meijer

TU Delft

Scientist leader EVOLF

Molecular neurobiology

About me

Dirk Jan Slotboom

University of Groningen

Scientist leader EVOLF and Associate PI BaSyC

Biochemistry, metabolism

About me

Douwe Grundel

University of Groningen

PhD

-

About me

Elynor Moore

TU Delft

Postdoc

synthetic chromosomes

About me

Eric Bumüller

AMOLF

Associate PhD EVOLF (MSCA-DN SigSynCell)

Molecular neurobiology

About me

Erwin Frey

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Advisory Board EVOLF

-

About me

Esther Geurken

TU Delft

PhD

protein modules

About me

Euan Joly-Smith

Hubrecht Institute

Postdoc

rRNA data

About me

Eugene Koonin 

National Institutes of Health

Advisory Board EVOLF

-

About me

Evan Spruijt 

Radboud University

Associate PI BaSyC

synthetic chromosomes

About me

Fabian van Beveren

Wageningen University

Postdoc

synthetic organism

About me

Fabian van Beveren

VU Amsterdam

Postdoc

synthetic cells

About me

Federico Ramirez Gomez

TU Delft

PhD

synthetic chromosomes

About me

Floor Loozen

VU Amsterdam

PhD

synthetic cells

About me

Frank Bruggeman

VU Amsterdam

Associate PI EVOLF

synthetic cells

About me

Frank van Opstal

TU Delft

Technician

Technical support

About me

Gerard Castro Linnares

TU Delft

PhD

Technical support

About me

Gijs Wuite 

VU Amsterdam

Scientist leader EVOLF and Associate PI BaSyC

Biophysics, genome replication, cell signaling

About me

Gijsje Koenderink 

TU Delft

Steering board (Vice chair) EVOLF and PI BaSyC

Biophysics, cell division & signaling

About me

Greg Bokinsky

TU Delft

Scientist leader EVOLF 

Synthetic biology, metabolism

About me

Hannah Wienecke

AMOLF

PhD

-

About me

Haochun Sun

TU Delft

PhD

division process

About me

Heleen van Rooijen-Bosscha

TU Delft

Communications officer BaSyC

Communications  

About me

Henrique da Costa Oliveira

Wageningen University

Postdoc

synthetic genome design  

About me

Hilke Schenkel

TU Delft

PhD

synthetic minimal cell

About me

Hub Zwart

Erasmus School of Philosophy

PI  BaSyC

synthetic genome design  

About me

Jack Tait

AMOLF

PhD

protein synthesis

About me

James Hutton

TU Delft

Associate PI EVOLF

synthetic minimal cell

About me

Jan Stevens

University of Groningen

Associate PhD EVOLF

-

About me

Jane Calvert

University of Edinburgh

Advisory Board EVOLF

-

About me

Jasper van Heusden

TU Delft

Project Manager EVOLF

Project management 

About me

Jayesh Aher

Radboud University

PhD

-

About me

Jeffrey den Haan

TU Delft

Technician

-

About me

Jelmer Coenradij 

University of Groningen

PhD

sustainable phospholipid biosynthesis pathway

About me

Want to join our community?

The SynCellNL community is open for new connections. Would you like to join our network of scientists, institutions and universities in the Netherlands creating synthetic cells from the bottom-up? Or do you want to add an existing interdisciplinary project in this field to our projects page? Submit your request.

Join our community

If you are looking for a research position (for example a PhD or Postdoc position), discover open positions at our project EVOLF.